Apparatus for cleaning intestines.



No. 719,031. PATENTED JAN.'2'7, 1903.

H. NAEGELE.

APPARATUS FOR, CLEANING INTESTINES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1901.

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APPARATUS FOR CLEANING INTESTINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,031, dated January 27, 1903.

Application filed November 4, 1901. Serial No. 81,129. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN NAEGELE, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of Wiirtemberg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleaning Intestines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inventiomsuch as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning animal intestines from grease, fibers, 560., which now are usually taken oif by scraping devices, such as knives and the like. Very often with these devices it happens that the intestines are cut into pieces, and thus damaged.

The object of the present invention is to provide a machine by means'of which the intestines are cleaned efficaciously and without being damaged in any way.

Essentially the apparatus forming the subject-matter of the present invention consists of two rotating rollers with ribbed or roughened surfaces and of a scraping device advantageously also ribbed, beneath which the intestines, watered beforehand, are drawn by the rollers, and grease, fibers, &c., are scraped otf, the ribbed rollers afterward advantageously serving to effect the following treatment and cleaning of the intestines. A single or repeated passage of the intestines through the apparatus will be required, depending upon their condition.

My invention will be fully understood with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 illustrates in front elevation the object of the invention as applied to a table or the like. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan View. Fig. L is a plan view, the plate and scrapers being removed. Figs. 5 and 6 represent in vertical section and in elevation, respectively, a somewhat modified construction having but one ribbed cleaning-roller rotating within a receptacle, the inside of which is ribbed.

In the first construction the roller 7c is supported by the frame (1 upon the an gle-piece b. The shaft g of the second roller k is journaled in a frame a d, loosely fixed to the frame a by means of the bolt f. The said shaft is provided with a crank g. Thus the weight of the roller 7c and the crank 9 serves to exert a yielding pressure of the roller 70 upon the roller kin operation, which pressure may be modified in degree bythe hand of the operator upon the connecting bar or rung d, as more or less traction is desired to be exerted by the rollers. The roller k is driven directly, while the other roller 72/ is rotated by means of the toothed wheels r r, fixed upon the shafts of both rollers. The said rollers are arranged for the treatment of two intestines to be placed upon the ribbed surfaces 6 of the plate 6, fixed to the frame by means of screws 6. The intestines are pressed against the plate 6 by the ribbed scrapers e'. The saw-like scrapers i are mounted upon arms to on the shaft. to, fixed to the anglepiece I). Before the intestines are passed be tween the ribbed rollers they are drawn between the ribbed plate 6 and scraper 2', and in this way the dirt is scraped off, while the rollers accomplish the work of perfecting the cleaning by pressure. The frame a at its lower end is provided with an angle-piece carrying the screw h, by means of which the apparatus can be fixed to a table or the like.

In the modified construction illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 a ribbed roller 1) is mounted for rotation within a receptacle w,having a ribbed mantle. The intestines z are drawn between roller and mantle, and advantageously under aid of water. In this machine also the intestines before reaching the roller I) can be drawn through a scraping device, as provided in the apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4. The scraping device is not illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. The apparatus of Figs. 5 and 6, by means of a plate g, forming a part of the receptacle w, also can be fixed to a table t when the angle-piece a is pressed against the same by the screw it.

Instead of a fixed ribbed receptacle w a rotating wooden roller might be employed within which the second roller is arranged so that the intestines pass through both rollers, as in the first example.

It is evident that the apparatus can be built in all sizes and that it can be mounted upon a frame if it is too large to be fixed upon a table or the like. Also the form of the ICO rollers maybe changed and the manner of rotation of the rollers can be the same or a different one.

Having now particularly described and ascertained my 1 livention, I declare that what i I claim is 1. In an apparatus of the character described, a scraper mounted above and exertingyieldiigplczsureuponasupporting-plate, two relativey movable friction surfaces mounted in jcxtlposition, the first having a fixed mounting and the second rotating upon an axis at a variable distance from the first and in such relation thereto as to exert pressure by gravity thereon, a handle connected with the variable mounting whereby manual force may be employed to assist the force of gravity and modify the relation between the friction-surfaces.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, a plurality of scrapers mounted above and exerting yielding pressure upon a plate having an abraded surface, two relatively movable contact friction-rolls mounted in juxtaposition, one having a fixed mounting and the other rotating upon an axis at a variable distance therefrom in a frame pivotally mounted above and to one side of the fixed mounting in such relation thereto that the periphery of the one roll will be cut by the arc of pivotal movement of the other roll, a handle affixed to the frame, whereby the pressure between said rolls may be modified.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, a scraper pivotally mounted above and exerting pressure by gravity upon an abraded surface, a roll journaled in a fixed part of the apparatus, a second roll journaled in a frame pivotally mounted in such manner that the arc of the movement of such second roll will out the periphery of the first roll, whereby the Weight of the second roll and its mounting will serve to press the same normally against the first roll, and a handle whereby manual force may be employed to assist the force of gravity.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, a frame provided with means where-' by it may be clamped to a table or other support, said frame having journaled therein a friction-roll and carrying upwardly-extending arms having pivotally mounted thereto other arms having journaled therein a second friction-roll, the surfaces of the two rollers resting normally in contact by reason of the force of gravity, a lever whereby the said force of gravity may be supplemented as desired, a plate carried by the frame and having an abraded surface, a scraper pivotally mounted on the frame and normally resting by the force of gravitation upon said plate, means for actuating the two rolls and thus exerting traction upon an article placed between the same whereby it will be drawn between the plate and the scraper and thus cleaned.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERMANN NAEGELE. Witnesses:

AUGUST DRAUTZ, WALTER SOHNAEBEL. 

